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Black Women and the Peace Movement
Author: Wilmette Brown
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 9780950886602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Band of Noble Women
Author: Melinda Plastas
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0815651449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Band of Noble Women brings together the histories of the women’s peace movement and the black women’s club and social reform movement in a story of community and consciousness building between the world wars. Believing that achievement of improved race relations was a central step in establishing world peace, African American and white women initiated new political alliances that challenged the practices of Jim Crow segregation and promoted the leadership of women in transnational politics. Under the auspices of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), they united the artistic agenda of the Harlem Renaissance, suffrage-era organizing tactics, and contemporary debates on race in their efforts to expand women’s influence on the politics of war and peace. Plastas shows how WILPF espoused middle-class values and employed gendered forms of organization building, educating thousands of people on issues ranging from U.S. policies in Haiti and Liberia to the need for global disarmament. Highlighting WILPF chapters in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Baltimore, the author examines the successes of this interracial movement as well as its failures. A Band of Noble Women enables us to examine more fully the history of race in U.S. women’s movements and illuminates the role of the women’s peace movement in setting the foundation for the civil rights movement.
Black Women's Mental Health
Author: Stephanie Y. Evans
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2017-06-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1438465815
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Creates a new framework for approaching Black womens wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy. This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black womens struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black womens wellness in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject both superwoman stereotypes and victim caricatures. Also included for health professionals are concrete recommendations for understanding and treating Black women. this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and optimal health. from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount
Women Strike for Peace
Author: Amy Swerdlow
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993-11-15
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780226786353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Foreword by Catharine R. StimpsonAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "Raising a Hue and Cry"2. Prelude to a Peace Strike3. Who Are These Women?4. Organizing a "Nonorganization"5. Ladies' Day at the Capitol6. A Not-so-funny Thing Happened on the Way to Disarmament7. "The Women's Vote Is the Peace Vote"8. Not Our Sons, Not Your Sons, Not Their Sons: Hell, No, We Won't Let Them Go!9. We Have Met the Enemy--and They Are Our Sisters!ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
No Peace Without Freedom
Author: Joyce Blackwell
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780809325641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new perspective on interracial and black female global activism helps redefine the often covert systemic violence necessary to maintain systems of social and economic hierarchy, moving peace and war discourse away from its narrow focus on European and European American issues."
Set the World on Fire
Author: Keisha N. Blain
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0812249887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"[This book] examine[s] how black nationalist women engaged in national and global politics from the early twentieth century to the 1960's"--Amazon.com.
War, Peace, and Structural Violence
Sojourning for Freedom
Author: Erik S. McDuffie
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011-06-27
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0822350505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Illuminates a pathbreaking black radical feminist politics forged by black women leftists active in the U.S. Communist Party between its founding in 1919 and its demise in the 1950s.
Black Women's Yoga History
Author: Stephanie Y. Evans
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2021-03-01
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 1438483651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along. Life writings by Harriet Jacobs, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Eartha Kitt, Rosa Parks, Jan Willis, and Tina Turner are only a few examples of personal case studies that are included here, illustrating how these women managed traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression. In more than fifty yoga memoirs, Black women discuss practices of reflection, exercise, movement, stretching, visualization, and chanting for self-care. By unveiling the depth of a struggle for wellness, memoirs offer lessons for those who also struggle to heal from personal, cultural, and structural violence. This intellectual history expands conceptions of yoga and defines inner peace as mental health, healing, and wellness that is both compassionate and political.
